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Re: Add uninstall target to Makefile

From
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Date
Sep 16, 2005, 19:19 UTC
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<20050916191953.GD22825@tuxdriver.com>
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<20050916180810.GK8041@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:08:10AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> Of course package manager will do better at this, but it is useful to be
> able to uninstall.  However, I don't think Martin's external script with
> all the filenames hardcoded is the right approach.  There are $(PROG)
> and $(SCRIPTS) which already know all these filenames.

I would agree with that. Definitely better to use the same Makefile vars used for install to do the uninstall.

John
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Message 5 of 9 in “Add uninstall target to Makefile”
  1. Martin AtukundaSep 16, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoSep 16, 2005
  3. John W. LinvilleSep 16, 2005
  4. Chris WrightSep 16, 2005
  5. John W. LinvilleSep 16, 2005
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 16, 2005
  7. Johannes SchindelinSep 16, 2005
  8. Martin AtukundaSep 18, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 16, 2005

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